Blinded By The Light Dept.

The Problem with Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See | The New Republic

A novel is not a historical document, but it does become one, regardless of its author’s preference. Our entertainments reflect their times: how we choose to remember historical events, and how we prefer to remember them. Especially when the worst of times, World War II, becomes material for the lightest of entertainments.

Emphasis mine, in big part because of how it echoes something I've been reiterating in various...